Marking the beginning of 72-day-long Onam festivities at Aranmula, the ritualistic feast of Vallasadya will take off to a start at the centuries’ old Sree Parthasarathy Temple on the banks of the Pampa in Aranmula on Sunday.
Vallasadya is an offering by the devotees to the presiding deity at the Aranmula temple, organised by the Palliyoda Seva Sanghom (PSS) in association with the Travancore Devaswom Board, the temple administrative body. The feast is offered primarily to the crew of Palliyodams (snakeboats), who will be accorded a customary reception at the temple ghats and escorted to the temple.
The oarsmen, on their part, will offer paddy, tobacco and betel leaves to the deity and circumambulate the temple by singing Vanchippattu (boat songs).
